The Secret to Loose Skin: A Lower Body Lift - Plastic Surgery Secrets

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ose Skin: A Lower Body Lift


Massive weight loss patients endure a long, arduous journey from obesity to a normal weight. The quest requires both mental and physical discipline, but even after complete success, loose skin may very well remain. Stretched by the former weight, at a certain point the skin cannot stretch back. Now with nothing to fill it out, the loose skin hangs and stays as a reminder that once, you were massively over weight.

The only correction for loose skin is by removing it with surgery. There are numerous lifts out there – the facelift, neck lift, eyebrow lift, as well as one not many know about, the lower body lift. The secret to a successful massive weight loss may rest with this plastic surgery procedure not often talked about.

HOORAH! YOU’VE MADE YOUR GOAL WEIGHT
Congratulations! You made the decision to lose all that weight and achieved it, either through will power and diet or through the rigors of bariatric surgery. The weight is gone, your life has turned around for the better, but… all that extra, loose skin. The crunches and treadmill do not seem to be working.

The final step for many massive weight loss patients is surgical removal of the skin. The more overweight a patient was, the more “extra skin” will need to be removed. The lower body lift is a plastic surgery procedure that works somewhat similar to a tummy tuck: skin is removed in certain regions then sutured together to recreate natural body contours.

Lower body lift and exercise.

“This operation is very effective for patients who have lost a lot of weight, either after weight loss surgery or just through natural dieting and exercise,” says Peter Rubin, MD, a board certified plastic surgeon experienced in the procedure. He adds patients can expect a very dramatic change with the lifting of the outer thighs and the buttock combined with a shaping of the tummy or the abdomen. “This combination procedure works very well to shape the whole lower body in one stage. Of course, it’s a bigger operation, the recovery is longer, and there’s always a bit more risk associated.”

WHY DOESN’T SKIN DISAPPEAR LIKE WEIGHT DOES?
Many are surprised to know that the skin doesn’t always stretch back after losing lots of weight. Daniel Maman, MD, a New York City-based board certified plastic surgeon, gets asked this question all the time. “Patients will say they’ve lost a lot of weight, either from bariatric surgery or diet, and that they’ve been going to the gym rigorously, but no matter what they do, they still can’t get rid of that loose skin,” he explains. “It isn’t fair, but then, as they say, life isn’t fair all the time, either. That’s where body contouring surgery comes in.”